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I appreciate the kind words! The template has taken quite a bit of time, and it still isn't nearly as user-friendly as I'd like it to be, but I'm happy to hear the final product turns out presentable!
As for the collar and armhole trim, that's something I've struggled with on a number of NBA concepts. I almost always start out with a singular, linear vision and work until it's completed -- for example, collar and armhole trim was never a consideration here, it was always going to be the subtler hits of color at the neckline and near the scapulae. The collar and armhole trim you suggested could totally work, though, and yet my creative vision is a bit too narrow at times to see that.
This goes along with a potential project I've been thinking of that focuses on a singular team and explores as many design options as possible -- different combinations of bases, side panels, collar and armhole trims, wordmarks, numerals, etc. I think it could be a fascinating exercise in learning what does and doesn't work when it comes to creating, revising, and finalizing a design concept.
I'd be pretty puzzled if they did!
You make a good point re: gold being the more tertiary color -- I certainly have a tendency to overuse metallic gold whenever I incorporate it. I think it's important to keep the colors of the wordmarks and numerals different, but I think a bit more red on the black jersey could go a long way. Perhaps a red stroke around the wordmarks instead of a gold one would suffice? Then the white stroke from the numerals could probably stand to come off as well?
Thanks a lot! I definitely intend to add shorts to the template, though it'll probably be a while before I get around to it.
Thanks for the input! I get carried away with patterns, panels, etc., so the main goals here were simplicity and intrigue -- I'm happy to hear you see both!

San Diego State's basketball program recently joined the exclusive list of teams outfitted by Jordan Brand. As an under-the-radar program relative to most of the others on Jordan Brand's roster - UNC, Georgetown, Marquette, Michigan, Oklahoma, Florida, and Houston - I began investigating SDSU's identity.
While their football team has a very unique and relevant look, the same can't be said for their basketball team. Their home and away uniforms are incredibly bland, though I do enjoy the clean, classic look of their throwbacks. In addition to the blandness, the typeface feels a bit dated and the colors lack purpose.
Starting with a new template I've been working on for NBA concepts, I employed a design very similar to that of the Cleveland Cavaliers' Statement Edition jerseys. I recognized the scapula highlights from SDSU's Kawhi Leonard-era uniforms, and the additional highlight on the front collar helps add intrigue. (Side note: I greatly appreciate @aawagner011 and the NIKExNBA template that was shared here on the forum; I found the tags and some of the curves to be especially helpful in developing my template!)
Next, I cleaned up the typeface for the home and away uniforms -- it preserves the sentiment of what they currently use, but with less rounded characters and less angular serifs. It also eliminates spacing issues by separating 'SAN DIEGO' from 'STATE' and placing the numerals in between. The alternate uniform receives a cursive 'Aztecs' script.
Finally, I took some inspiration from Nike's emphasized use of color in the NBA to create a more vibrant and exciting look. SDSU's identity previously contained metallic gold - from 2002 through 2012 - and it makes a reappearance here as an accent color on all three uniforms. The use of metallic gold accentuates black and red as primary colors and helps differentiate SDSU from other black, red, and white teams (Louisville, Texas Tech, UNLV, New Mexico, etc.).
With simplicity being the dominant aesthetic in college basketball currently, I avoided adding clutter via side panels or additional trim. I have yet to finish my template for the shorts, but that would likely be where additional design elements and logos are placed to create a cohesive look.
Please let me know your thoughts -- any and all thoughts, ideas, comments, and criticisms are greatly appreciated!
SAN DIEGO STATE AZTECS x JORDAN BRAND - Home Uniform
SAN DIEGO STATE AZTECS x JORDAN BRAND - Away Uniform
SAN DIEGO STATE AZTECS x JORDAN BRAND - Alternate Uniform

With the NBA switching to Nike upon the expiration of Adidas' contract with the League at the end of this season, this thread will be where I'll share all of my designs. Ideally I want to create home and away uniforms for all 30 teams, but that may be a bit ambitious so we'll see what happens. I'll start with one uniform for each of the 16 playoff teams and then hopefully progress from there. This will be an exercise focusing primarily on colors, fonts, and minimalist design elements to create a clean and unique look for each team that reinforces or in some cases redesigns their brand. As always, any and all comments and criticisms are greatly appreciated!
Indiana Pacers Away Uniform
This takes the clean aesthetic of their current look and recalls the more yellow-centric color balance of their uniforms from the early '90s, adding a sublimated checkerboard racing stripe pattern along the side panels.
Chicago Bulls Away Uniform
While black is typically used as an alternate uniform color for the Bulls, the Jordan-era pinstripes were too classic to pass up. This look doesn't reinvent those classic jerseys so much as it simply reapplies it to the updated Nike Aeroswift jersey template.

The new Tennessee Titans uniforms have been met mixed, mostly negative reviews. I've seen a lot of complaints over concepts - such as color balance and cohesion - as well as over specific details - such as no white helmet and the font selection. Also, a concerning amount of people think the new uniforms make them look like the Texans, Seahawks, and/or Patriots.
I don't hate the re-design, but it could definitely use some polishing. As-is, it feels incomplete....but it does have some elements that can be salvaged.
-Shifting the focus to navy is a welcomed change that creates a more aggressive look
-Changing the shoulder yokes to silver eliminates large volumes of Columbia blue (primary color or not, this is a very good thing)
-Injecting silver into the color palette helps tone things down while allowing accent colors to pop
Personally, my biggest issue with the set is the aforementioned lack of coherency. It feels like three different teams of designers worked on it -- one on the helmet, one on the jersey, and one on the pants. This should obviously never be the case, so the main goal is to unify the three major pieces.
Additionally, I want to clean things up just a bit. The two-tone silver looks muddled, the underarm color blocks feel cluttered, and none of the shapes flow along with one another.
Anyways, here are my changes...
Helmet - The navy shell with a silver facemask is sharp, but the flaming thumbtack logo must go. It's now replaced with a modified version of the team's 20th Anniversary Logo. The two-tone silver striping has been replaced with a solid red tapered stripe designed to mimic the plume of a titan's battle helmet. (The Nike-speak potential here is off the charts.)
Jersey - The navy home and white away jerseys offer continuity with the team's historical jersey colors; however, I refuse to include a Columbia blue alternate because it's just a dreadful color. The shoulder yokes are alleviated of the two-tone silver treatment, though the general color balance remains largely unchanged. The only difference is the removal of the underarm color blocks, with the sleeve trim retaining Columbia blue in the form of the Greek striping pattern. The sharpness of the sword-inspired shape is gone, though, considering you can't wear swords on your shoulders....so instead the shape has been modified in reference to shoulder armor. (You know, something you can wear on your shoulders.) Finally, the font has been adjusted to the one that's been used across most of the team's social media platforms.
Pants - The actual pants unveiled the other night are shockingly underwhelming -- the sword sheath idea is intriguing, but the pants complement precisely nothing else throughout the rest of the uniform set. Here, I aim for something simple and coherent that can be worn with any jersey without causing color and/or striping inconsistencies.
Navy - Navy - Silver
Navy - Navy - Navy
Navy - White - Navy
Navy - White - Silver
Any and all comments and criticisms are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for the input! The red helmet stripe definitely stands out as something that could be tweaked, so you make a good point. In addition to the color, the shape may well need to be tweaked too.
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This is an excellent point.
Much of the discussion on these boards since Nike's takeover has been "this team should look like this," "that team should bring those uniforms back," "they should [whatever]." I respect all of the opinions, and some certainly have their merits, but so many people seem to want teams to have two uniforms - that HAVE to be called "home" and "away" - and maybe an alternate, that are the exact same in perpetuity.
Teams change. Identities change. Brands change. Change for the sake of change isn't necessarily a good thing, and I won't defend all of Nike's designs, but from both business as well as design perspectives it makes no sense to remain stagnant. Teams like the Lakers and Celtics are obviously more untouchable than others, but even a team as iconic as the Bulls can benefit from something new and fresh like their City Edition uniforms. Mike was great, but that only lasted ~15 years, he's been gone for ~20 years, and they weren't ultra-relevant any time before or after that.

One of the more universally liked City Edition uniforms - and certainly one of my personal favorites - belongs to the Miami Heat. The Miami Vice theme along with the neon colors is pretty much the most Miami thing you can legally do to a uniform, and it's perfect in every single way right down to the throwback single-leg shorts trim.
With that being said, the first thing myself and many others on this board and elsewhere thought was that it could work very well in black too. Something about the city's neon lights at night creates a perfect tie-in. With City Edition uniforms anticipated to change every year, I wouldn't be surprised to see a black version sooner than later.
I've seen a few mock-ups of black versions that more or less just flip the base colors and call it a day, and those look just as nice as expected. However, I think the white base needs the full-color wordmarks and numerals as well as the black accents to make it work; I don't know that this is necessarily true for the black base, though.
For my black version, I maintained the basic template of their current City Edition jersey while revisiting the LeBron-era "Back in Black" alternates for the wordmarks and numerals. The black letters and numerals on the black background creates a perfect amount of contrast with the neon strokes while also affording room for a glow effect similar to my Minnesota Timberwolves Northern Lights alternate jersey a few pages back.
It's clean, simple, and very Miami. Please let me know your thoughts on this version....thanks!
Miami Heat City Edition Jerseys

I definitely didn't do that intentionally, but that'd be a very interesting connection!
Quick update to the Grizzlies -- slightly scaled down the wordmark and numerals because they were a bit too large on the original draft. I'll hopefully have the Association Edition as well as maybe a Statement and/or City Edition sometime soon.
Memphis Grizzlies Icon Edition Jersey

This concept actually started when I was flipping through a magazine at a coffee shop one weekend and saw an ad for a local Mexican restaurant. I really liked the way the typeface's colors worked and were balanced with one another, so I made a note of it and finally got around to experimenting with it.
The Memphis Grizzlies' current identity has overstayed its welcome, and with the transition to Nike's new template it lost most bits of character it did had. I actually don't mind their current Statement Edition template so much - it's unique, fairly clean, and the shoulder/back color blocking alludes to an identifying characteristic of grizzly bears - but the color palette is dull and too many teams use navy.
The three shades of blue they employ is a unique design feature, though. Also, Grizzly bears are oftentimes varying shades of brown. No teams in the NBA wear brown, so I thought it would be an interesting experiment to work with various shades of brown as the foundation for this concept. The yellow accent is something I admittedly still love about the Grizzlies' current set, so that was retained.
The typeface is updated to something simple, yet angular, and the stroke and drop shadow are similar to the aforementioned print ad I saw. I spent a lot of time looking at the design aesthetics of both Wyoming and St. Bonaventure's, as both school's employ similar color schemes, but their basketball uniforms are routinely underwhelming and uninteresting. The goal was to create something neutral yet colorful with clean yet aggressive lines -- not overwhelming, but at the very least interesting.
I've yet to finalize a concept for the Association Edition jersey, as I tend to struggle with the white base. I'm still figuring out the color balance there, but I'll hopefully have something to share for that in the coming days.
Thanks for looking!
Memphis Grizzlies Icon Edition Jersey

The Raptors' current set definitely lacks something. I haven't worked on anything for them beyond the City Edition concept in this thread, but maybe I need to use this concept's color balance as a foundation for whenever I do.
Thanks a lot! I'm trying to conceptualize a Mardis Gras color scheme, but it still feels too busy to draft up. Once it's simplified I'll hopefully share it!
I appreciate it!

I've been working on a handful of different concepts lately -- the City Edition uniform unveilings have given me a lot to think about, and I've got a few teams for which I'm working on designing entirely new sets. For now, though, I have the latest drafts from my New Orleans project.
The most recent jersey took a step in the right direction with the script, but the rest of it was generic by design. I'm not sold on the Pelicans as a nickname, and though I initially preferred changing it to Krewe, I ultimately settled on Voodoo. Something about the New Orleans Voodoo just felt right. I didn't remember until a bit later that this was the name of a now-defunct Arena Football League team, and I didn't realize until much later that the color palette I used was also their color palette. So this is awkward.
The more I thought about how similar the black/gold/red color scheme was to the early '00s Sixers, the more I thought it would be reasonable to add yet another color. Between the New Orleans Jazz, Mardis Gras, and voodoo, purple was the only logical option. I think purple fits the theme very well, and it also has the added benefit of reducing the amount of red while making it pop more. Black and gold also complement it nicely.
The 'New Orleans' script remains the same, and I was also able to use it to fashion a makeshift 'Voodoo' script out of scraps of some letters. The 'Voodoo' script still feels a bit off to me, and I can't tell if it's because of the angling of the 'V,' the left/right centering of the script, both factors, or something else entirely, but I think it's on the right track. Any and all input on this would be very much appreciated.
I never made the connection before now, but the Pelicans' current side panels draw design inspiration from the street lanterns in the city's French Quarter. I really like that connection as well as the angular cuts of the design along with its color arrangement, so that design has been retained.
Overall, I want these Association and Icon Edition jerseys to capture a bit of both New Orleans and Voodoo through scripts, color schemes, and imagery that fit seamlessly together. Please let me know your thoughts on how well this is or isn't accomplished here, and if you have any suggestions for improvements please feel free to share them. Thanks for looking!
New Orleans Voodoo Association Edition Jersey
New Orleans Voodoo Icon Edition Jersey

Ha! As much as I like Jrue Holiday as a player, he admittedly wasn't my first choice -- but I couldn't get the '5' right for DeMarcus Cousins' #15, so I just duplicated the 1 I made out of the 'l' in the 'New Orleans' script and called it a day.
This draft was deliberately void of anything Pelicans-related as I was contemplating a name change. I agree with you that the generic side panels need some uniqueness, though....I'll be posting a couple new concepts in a second that hopefully have more character!
It certainly is gorgeous -- I wish I could take credit for it, but it's part of a recent citywide tourism campaign. It's easily one of my favorite branding projects I've seen in recent memory....the rest of it can be found here!
Thanks a lot! I'll be curious to know whether or not you prefer that version or the next pair of drafts!

I'm surprised how much better the full 'DALLAS' wordmark looks. The original design doesn't merit the full set treatment for me, but these look solid. I think a more unique typeface as well as tweaking the shades of blue and green could make this the foundation of a nice set for them.

Nice work! I think we can all agree OKC is due for a refresh, and their current Statement Edition uniform is probably the best look in team history -- so this is a very logical starting point.
The navy one works perfectly, and the lighter blue one works pretty well too. I didn't think I'd like the orange and white versions due to the lack of the lighter blue, but even those look clean and sharp.
The gray one is certainly better than their current City Edition jersey, though I'm not crazy about it. I'm intrigued by how their grayscale/white/yellow color scheme might look without the blue and orange swoops and with the typefaces and template you've used here. The black works just fine, though is a bit redundant and unnecessary with how nice the navy one looks.
Good job and good idea! Now that we're starting to see the remainder of the new uniforms for this season, hopefully we'll see more concepts like these here on the boards!

I've been experimenting with a few things to improve this set:
1) re-injecting red into the color palette
2) switching to a truer shade of gold
3) introducing a new wordmark and numerals script
So far, I'm liking the results. The color palette actually reminds me of the Allen Iverson-era Sixers, though obviously without as much white and no blue nor silver entirely. The original typeface doesn't quite feel cut out for a basketball jersey the more I look at it, but this particular script has enough character to belong. It actually comes from the city's official tourism site if I'm not mistaken.
I laid out color schemes for the remaining Association, Icon, and City Edition jerseys, and I may still tweak the side panels a bit, but barring any significant changes here's the updated template with which I plan to move forward...
New Orleans Pelicans Statement Edition Jersey
Is this a step in the right direction in terms of color, typeface, etc.? Please let me know your thoughts....thanks!

One of my biggest struggles when designing concepts comes when I like a team's current identity and/or have seen other concepts I find especially impressive. If what I'm sketching out and trying to create isn't good or unique or fun enough relative to what else is out there - or rather doesn't feel like it has the potential to eventually be - then it feels like a waste of time. I know that isn't entirely true, but it's a challenge I face and something I want to get better at working through.
So, to tackle that, I wanted to take a team whose identity I like well enough and tried to create something new, unique, and interesting for them. The New Orleans Pelicans fit the description, as their current color palette works, their font is city/team-specific, and their uniforms as a whole are clean yet interesting. With that being said, though, nothing about their current look is iconic or timeless, so there's some room to experiment and explore different directions.
As far as I'm concerned, the navy has to go -- there are too many navy-centric teams in the League, and it isn't essential to the Pelicans. I swapped in black for navy since the Saints' colors are an integral part of the city's sports culture; I also instinctively removed the red, though as I type this right now I'm realizing that bringing it back into this concept could work very well and create a color palette the NBA hasn't seen before (I think? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). But yeah, I think I'm going to go experiment with that now.
The black and gold color scheme lends itself well to clean, simplistic design. A font called 'Hotel de Paris' caught my attention and also happened to use black and gold in the accompanying text sample -- considering this coincidence, as well as the city of New Orleans' historical ties to France, I took that as a sign and ran with it. I ended up spending multiple hours looking at French luxury hotel designs, and my first draft had way too much of that influencing it (the side panels were obnoxiously ornate), so I scaled things back a bit while keeping the design elements consistent.
One thing I consciously made a point of here was to distance the design from anything Pelican-related beyond the wordmarks. I think it's a pretty terrible name for a city with so many unique options - I personally like 'Krewe' - so the less Pelican-specific imagery the better. Kinda like how the Wizards is a goofy name for a team in Washington, so instead of changing it they pretty much ignore it entirely on their uniforms.
Anyways, here are the results for now. I want to see about reintroducing red into the mix, both on these jerseys as well as for the primary color of a Statement Edition jersey, and I also have a City Edition design that could be pretty fun if it isn't terrible. It looks cool in my head, but we'll see!
As always, any and all comments and criticisms are greatly appreciated!
New Orleans Pelicans Association Edition Jersey
New Orleans Pelicans Icon Edition Jersey

I really appreciate the thoughtful response! You’ve given me a lot of things to consider — over the last several days I’ve sketched out the goal of designing the entire League, so some if not all of your suggestions may very well find their way into that!
I’ve primarily posted my work on here as well as on team subreddits. As I officially begin and progress through my project, though, I’ll probably probably post them on Instagram (@icniivad), Behance, and elsewhere. I’ll be sure to add links in my signature once these pages are up and running.
Thanks a lot for your thoughts and suggestions!

Lately, I've spent quite a bit of time away from concepts while still working on some things -- most notably a (fairly) massive overhaul to my template. It started out mostly just as a way to hammer down the textures of the various materials, but then my OCD got the best of me and it became a full-on quest to make everything on the front - and eventually also the back - as exact as possible. So here we are now, with a more complete template with which to work.
Although I haven't been working explicitly on any concepts for the past several days, I've been thinking about things I like, dislike, would keep, and would tweak ever since the leaked City Edition jerseys @Conrad. provided for us on the homepage. I'm actually pleasantly surprised by a number of the apparent jerseys, but I'll reserve final judgment until we see them on-court.
Anyways, one that stood out to me (and others in the 2017/18 NBA Changes thread) as needing a complete overhaul was the Houston Rockets and their Chinese New Year alternate. Taking an already inspired template with a dull color palette and simply slapping a Chinese wordmark on the front just isn't a good look. It isn't original, it doesn't capture anything regarding Chinese New Year, and quite frankly it isn't unique enough from their regular set to maximize sales.
So, the first step was to ditch the template from their Association and Icon Edition jerseys in favor of the one from their Statement Edition jersey -- one with cleaner side panels that also, you know, relate to rockets. Next, we dumped the red and silver for the colors of the Chinese flag in addition to black, which coincides with Nike's apparent effort to maximize color on teams' third and fourth uniforms. It hopefully also appeases all of the folks who'd like the team to return to the red and yellow color palette from the early '90s and prior. Finally, the trim is kept to simple, single or dual color patterns to once again coincide with Nike's current design aesthetic. This gives us a vibrant base with a clean canvas.
The Chinese wordmark is retained, albeit below the numerals, as is the contrasting drop shadow from previous iterations of the uniform. The numerals are moved above the numeral and to the side of chest where they appeared during that weird era where Hakeem Olajuwon was forced to play in those goofy pinstriped late-'90s jerseys. The numerals also include a nod to the Chinese flag, as the four small stars are retained around the numerals that have been swapped in for the large star. These elements also receive the contrasting drop shadow for the sake of consistency.
The back of the jersey is very simple and consistent with the front, though the nameplate does not receive the contrasting drop shadow treatment due to multi-colored nameplates apparently not being a thing anymore in today's NBA. I don't make the rules, and honestly I don't know if that even is a rule, but for the time being I'll stick with single-color nameplates.
Hopefully this is a more interesting and/or visually appealing design than what it looks like the Rockets will actually be wearing. As always, any and all comments and criticisms are greatly appreciated. Thanks for looking!
Houston Rockets City Edition Jersey Concept - Front
Houston Rockets City Edition Jersey Concept - Back

I've started and abandoned concepts for the Pistons probably a half dozen times or so. Their current identity is getting very stale, but aside from the '90s their uniform history has been too consistent to draw back on anything from previous sets. If and when I have something worth sharing I'll post it!

Based on the designs of the leaked New Era caps, I’m guessing the bill patterns for the Hornets and Pacers will find their ways onto their respective uniforms like the sublimated patterns of teams like the Blazers and Timberwolves have. As boring as the front of the Hornets jersey is, I’m expecting the hornet striping to go around the back of the jersey similar to the design of the Thunder’s Statement Edition jerseys, and it also looks like the racing stripes might be sublimated onto the vertical stripe on the Pacers jersey. I guess we’ll wait and see.

Thanks a lot! I definitely wanted to focus on simplicity, and I think I'll probably angle it slightly more in that direction by removing the gray inlines on the wordmark and numerals.
I was experimenting with adding some color to it this morning, but that turned into an entirely unrelated draft of a green alternate. It currently looks more like the Kings' leaked City Edition jersey template than the template used throughout the remainder of the Wolves' current jersey set....we'll see if I can turn it into something worth sharing!
I appreciate it! That would be a unique idea -- now that you mention it, the different typeface widths they use between the 'MINNESOTA' and 'WOLVES' scripts has irked me since it was unveiled. I might experiment with adding 'TIMBER' on top of this script as well as with a single-line 'TIMBERWOLVES' script using the narrower typeface.
I'll be interested to see how well the solid white wordmark shows up on the light gray jersey without outlines. It doesn't look too bad on the leaked hat or 2K jersey, but I think matching the outlines makes the most sense with respect to both clarity and consistency. As mentioned above, I'll try eliminating my gray inlines on both the wordmark and numerals like the leak.
Also interesting to see how the wolf side panels angle in slightly from top to bottom as well as the fact that they're using the same neckline collar template as the Cavs.

Thanks for sharing that, @itsmb8! Every now and then I'll see a 2K screenshot with one of my concepts as the uniforms and I'm just glad people appreciate or are at least able to find a use for them.
I've been super negligent with this thread lately, and I've got some revisions and follow-up work to share for the Magic, Celtics, Spurs, and Mavericks. I'll hopefully get around to that soon.
For now, though, all I have to share is a concept for the Minnesota Timberwolves' City Edition jersey that honestly I actually really hate but spent too much time on not to share it. It's a weird combination of what I'm predicting vs. what I'm wanting out of it. It's kind of in this weird concept purgatory, if you will.
Anyways, the idea is simple: the jersey mimics the New Era City Edition hat @Conrad. shared with us the other day. The side panels incorporate the wolf-ish pattern, and the front is light gray while the back is medium gray -- similar to how the colors were split on the old Vince Carter-era Raptors jerseys. The trim is simple and solid color because that seems to be a trend with Nike's new, original work as well as Minnesota's recent re-brand. The wordmark and numerals are more what I thought I wanted (until I finished the concept and had time to process it), as the wordmark on the leaked hat is arched and solid white. The arching goes against the other wordmarks in their uniform set, and the solid white on light gray kinda gets washed out. Also, I made the typefaces for both the wordmark and the numerals way too big in comparison to their oddly small-ish counterparts on the other three jerseys we've seen. Worst of all, the entire color scheme is full-on Spurs -- and thanks to the 2017/18 NBA Changes thread on the Sports Logos boards, I know just how emotional everybody gets when colors aren't exactly what they SHOULD be!
Anyways, it's ultimately a pretty boring jersey -- however, since finishing this draft, I've started crafting some tweaks to make it a bit more exciting, fully embrace the timberwolf motif, and inject bits of the new color palette into it to make things pop. A lot of my thoughts right now are actually derived from my complaints re: the Ohio State Buckeyes football team's wolf-themed alternates this year that were void of color.
I'll hopefully have an updated draft to share soon....until then, any and all thoughts, ideas, and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Minnesota Timberwolves City Edition Jersey v1.0

I really like the look of these color-on-color games involving the Statement jerseys. I think the accessories being a secondary color helps the look and makes it feel a little less like NBA Color Rush. The biggest thing I'd change is some of the jerseys' front designs -- off the top of my head, especially the Clippers and Spurs.